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• Amazing Russian Women Who Shape Our Lives

  …Princess Olga of Kiev This fierce and smart lady was instrumental in the course of Russian history. A pagan tribe called the Drevlyans killed her husband, Igor of Kiev, which made her the official ruler of Kievan Rus’ ( as in ancient Russia) until their three-year-old son Svyatoslav reached adulthood. Instead of succumbing to marriage proposals from the Drevlyan r…

  08.03.2019

• 10 Summer Schools to Attend This Summer

  …se who apply before March 31, 2019) The program of the summer school consists of lectures on international business, as well as lectures on Czech and European culture and history. Apart from that, participants get to visit several industrial companies. 10. 6th International Summer Academy in Engineering for Women, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (A…

  07.03.2019

• From Leucippus to Dmitri Mendeleev: History of Periodic Table

• This Weekend in St. Petersburg: March 9-10

  …icians from several countries will come to the Northern Venice to play all kinds of music: from folk, church and classical music to opera and jazz. Watch the Japanese folklore story about a farmer and his wife, listen to Stravinsky’s opera tale about a nightingale and the Chinese Emperor, participate in Sergei Banevich’ opéra féerie The Snuff-Box Town, and admire the…

  06.03.2019

• Head of RN-Burenie Oil Company’s IT Department: Every Bit of Fundamental Knowledge I Have, I Learned at University

  … I studied to become an IT engineer and we were taught many general subjects that, seemingly, weren’t that necessary. After all, why would a programmer need to know about history? But the importance of higher education is that, in addition to professional knowledge, you also acquire a wide perspective; you become a well-rounded person. And that matters a lot. Sure…

  04.03.2019

• Evolutionary Biologist David Seaborg: Science Enriches Our Lives with Fantastic Ideas and Discoveries

  …s beauty. In the end, the government decided to not have the road built, so we can say that we set the record for saving the most species per dollar of donation money in the history of any environmental organization. We are also working on saving the rainforests of Borneo by supporting the Borneo Project. We helped fund the making of beautiful, enlightening three-…

  04.03.2019

• Movie Fridays: Fine Tuning

  …tion into adolescent pop-culture. And these five teenagers livin’ it up during one day in detention embody that to a T. The Office: Male Prima Donna A harrowing love story tune that is deadly in its catchiness, Male Prima Donna is how you serenade people in the 21st century, folks. Especially if you’re in an on-and-off, pure-drama relationship that would ma…

  01.03.2019

• METANANO-2019: World’s Top Scientists to Celebrate 10th Anniversary of Center of Nanophotonics and Metamaterials in St. Petersburg

  …METANANO: history, geography, participants The METANANO conference is organized every year by the staff of ITMO University’s Faculty of Physics and Engineering. The first conference took place in 2016 in Anapa and brought together some 90 scientists. Back then, 90% of the event’s participants represented various Russian universities and research centers. During th…

  01.03.2019

• European University’s Nikita Lomagin: How IT is Changing Historical Science

  …There are still a number of missing spots in our knowledge of the Siege of Leningrad. What is your focus right now? These days I study the economic history of the blockade in order to answer a question that I believe is fundamental: how did one million citizens of Leningrad manage to survive? Previous discourse in this area has mostly been focused on the differing…

  28.02.2019

• Winter Forces: Volunteering and Retreat Trip All-in-One

  …in the initiative for the first time. “My favorite part is teaching first-to-ninth-graders. We try to do something cool and unusual. We tell them about healthy lifestyle and history, and host creative workshops. There is, for instance, the creativity lesson where the kids get to come up with their own marketing campaigns for major brands. At the film lesson, they wri…

  27.02.2019